Hardware Test Engineer, Beacon Biosignals
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AI brain monitoring
Open for applications
AI brain monitoring
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve human health by enabling rapid, targeted interventions through advanced brain analytics.
Role
Who you are
- Education: BS in engineering or related field
- Work Experience (post-graduate): 5+ years of professional engineering experience with a BS degree or 3+ years of professional engineering experience with an MS degree or above
- You have experience with writing detailed technical specifications and documentation, including requirements, test plans, protocols, and reports
- You can read and follow electrical schematics
- You have experience with embedded software that runs on a real-time operating system (RTOS)
- You have experience with scripting languages such as Python
- You have experience with troubleshooting, debugging, and root cause analysis of hardware and firmware issues in electromechanical systems
- You have experience with tools like Git/JIRA and platforms like GitHub
- Preferably, you have knowledge of design controls and regulations for medical devices
What the job involves
- In this exciting and challenging role as a test engineer specializing in hardware and firmware, you will contribute to the development of new and modified EEG and Home Sleep Test systems that meet application, business, customer, and regulatory requirements
- You will be working in the Device Team, reporting to the VP of Device Systems and working closely with hardware, firmware, system, and software engineers
- You are responsible for hardware characterization and verification tests, firmware unit tests, integration tests, verification tests, system integration, root cause analysis, and documentation to meet quality requirements
- Your goal as a hardware test engineer is to strive without reserve for the greatest quality and reliability in our products
- To accomplish this goal, you will collaborate with other design, research, manufacturing and quality colleagues to develop products from concept to commercialization
- You will contribute to product idealization, development, integration verification, and manufacturing
- Additionally, you will document design and production processes in accordance with applicable product development procedures, quality and regulatory requirements
- Develop and execute device testing in accordance with Beacon’s QMS
- Develop and document test plans, test protocols, and test scripts for embedded systems, including hardware, firmware, and software, based on design specifications and requirements
- Develop and maintain test procedures, fixtures, and equipment
- Conduct functional, integration, system, and regression testing on hardware and firmware
- Work closely with hardware and firmware engineers to troubleshoot and resolve product issues
- Ensure products meet industry standards, safety, and regulatory requirements (e.g., FDA, CE, 60601)
- Implement process improvements and test automation to enhance product quality and testing efficiency
Our take
The brain has long been considered one of the most mysterious fields of medicine - and psychiatric and neurological diseases therefore one of the least understood. Better access to real-time brain data, however, could change this and that’s exactly what Beacon Biosignals is hoping to deliver.
Beacon Biosignals has developed an AI-powered EEG platform designed to better measure and understand brain activity. Its technology includes a lightweight wearable headband that tracks brain signals during sleep and at home, feeding huge amounts of real-world data into machine-learning models. The aim is to help researchers analyze brain activity faster, identify new biomarkers, and improve the development of treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders.
The company recently raised major funding and acquired home sleep testing specialist CleveMed as it expands its AI-powered brain health platform. Its FDA-cleared wearable headband is already being used in more than 40 clinical trails studying conditions like depression, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and sleep disorders. By collecting millions of hours of brain activity data, Beacon hopes to help researchers detect diseases earlier and better understand how the brain changes over time.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2026
$11m
SERIES B
Nov 2025
$86m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127.5m
Company HQ
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Leadership
Jarrett Revels
(Co-Founder & CTO)Prior to co-founding Beacon Biosignals in 2019, Jarrett spent 4 years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joining as a Scientific Programmer before become a Performance Engineer then Research Software Developer.
Jacob Donoghue
(Co-Founder & CEO)Jacob completed a Neuroscience PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his MD from Harvard Medical School. Subsequently they carried out research for Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Brandon Westover
(Co-Founder)Received their MD from Washington University School of Medicine, then took up a Neurology residency at Harvard Medical School. Alongside their work at Beacon Biosignals, Brandon is also an HST Faculty member at MIT and a Neurologist/Medical AI Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Syd Cash
(Co-Founder)Syd is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, who also leads the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery at MGH.
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